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Saturday, July 31, 2010

On Tuesday, with no help from us (and without our being anywhere around—which is how donkey moms seem to prefer things), four-year-old Daphne gave birth to this darling little donkey. It wants nothing to do with me yet, and of course all I want to do is scoop all that softness up in my arms and snuggle the heck out it. It's no wonder mama Daphne is being so protective.

After what happened with baby Flitta last fall right after I introduced you to her—as well as everything that's been going on around here lately—I've been a little hesitant to announce our new long-eared arrival and share these photos I took on Wednesday morning, but so far, so good. It's nursing just fine and has lots of energy. I've only been out to see it once (I'm still mostly shackbound, especially after overdoing it a couple of days this week), but Joe says that every time he goes out there, the baby is running around the field so fast that none of the donkettes can even keep up with it. That definitely sounds like it's Evie's sibling—her name is actually short for Evinrude because she used to race around in circles when she was a baby, starting about five minutes after she was born. At two years old, Evie is still a kid herself, and I'm sure she'll be joining in the fun real soon.

This baby donkey has special markings that none of the others did: there are thin dark bands around each leg, almost like bracelets (you can see them best in the fifth photo down). It'll be interesting to see if they fade away or not.

Neither of us has been able get close enough yet to tell if the new donkey is a boy or a girl. A girl would be very good news indeed, because then I'll get to keep it. (Donkey Doodle Daddy is more than enough jack for this farm—and in fact we're planning to de-jack him soon so our donkey herd can stop multiplying and he can go back to running with the group.) I keep thinking it's a girl, but I've been wrong before. Please. Please. Please. Please be a girl.

This is the sixth baby donkey born on the farm. In order of appearance:

Dinky (lives on another farm and is best pals with a giant Belgian horse)

I noticed those markings & thought, "It looks a little like that Zebra-Donkey mix that was born in Georgia recently!" Congrats on the new baby & I hope you continue to take it easy. Or, take it as easy as you can on a farm.

Congrats!! to all!!! I never realized how adorable donkeys were until I found your site - and now I'm in love!! I'm really happy for you and you more than deserve some 'good stuff' to happen to you and Joe and the farm!!

Thanks for sharing these great photos - we'll be looking forward the hearing what you named this new baby (Hopefully, a girl!)

Thanks, too, for the update on the other donkeys and where they are these days.

Welcome to the new baby!! I, too, immediately thought of the Zee-Donk who was born recently at the Chestatee Wildlife Refuge in GA. Pictures are so similar. Congrats to Dan for me, too! Sure hope you are beginning to feel back to normal after your recent encounter with the snake. That was a pretty frightening story.Keep those donkey pictures coming our way!

So cute! I just saw a video on the Today Show about a baby Zedonk (half zebra, half donkey) who was born recently. The baby had striped legs too. Here's a link to the video:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38468759#38468759

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